PARIS (AFP) – Beleaguered French Foreign Minister Michele Alliot-Marie will on Sunday tender her resignation after returning from an official visit to Kuwait, a minister told AFP on condition of anonymity. Alliot-Marie has become embroiled in a...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama volunteered at a local school on Monday to mark the Martin Luther King Day holiday, testing his talents as a painter while emphasizing the importance of community service in America. Obama, who...

US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano arrived in Afghanistan for talks with Afghan officials and to spend the New Year’s holiday with American troops, her office said. A statement issued from Washington said Napolitano arrived...

NEW YORK — Americans clicked up a record 30.8 billion dollars in online holiday sales in 2010, a jump of 13 percent from a year ago, a survey showed. The research firm comScore said holiday season retail e-commerce spending for the 56 days of...

HONOLULU — US President Barack Obama is using his Christmas holiday in Hawaii to read up on former president Ronald Reagan, an icon for the resurgent Republicans he will face next year. The president “is reading a biography right now on...

The ACLU of Tennessee says it ended up on a map of potential terrorist threats after it sent a letter to school superintendents asking them to be “inclusive” in their holiday celebrations. The civil rights group says it found itself...

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said that the United States was “hurting” Thursday as he used a Thanksgiving address to call for support for US troops and cooperation from his rivals in a divided Washington. “This is not...

The TSA’s intrusive new screenings will result in more deaths on highways, says an economist with St. Lawrence University in New York state. Steven Horwitz says the TSA’s options of a full body scan or an intimate pat-down will...

Forget Hippie Hill. For thoroughly modern marijuana smokers in the San Francisco Bay area, the hip place to celebrate their movement’s high holiday this year was the inside of a stretch Hummer parked outside a pot gardening superstore....

Supporters say John Browning’s guns secured ‘freedom that allowed King to do his work’ The NAACP has condemned a Utah lawmaker’s bill that would add the name of a local gunmaker to Martin Luther King Day. Under state Sen....

WASHINGTON — Friday’s failed terrorist attack on Northwest Flight 253 has led to a resurgent debate on national security, and one political science expert said Monday that the GOP is exploiting and politicizing the debate for its...

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle sent Christmas greetings to Americans and particularly US soldiers serving abroad in a special holiday message. As families gather for the holidays “we wanted to take a moment to...

Since tomorrow’s a big ol’ holiday, unless something really important comes up, I’m taking the day off. But before I go fishing, I thought I’d review this awesome (and at $8 incredibly inexpensive) cookbook that Lisa...